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Bedlam Theatre is a fully operational 90 seat student-run theatre housed in a Neogothic church in central Edinburgh. It is owned by the University of Edinburgh, and notable for being the oldest student-run theatre in Britain. It is run by and home to the Edinburgh University Theatre Company (EUTC), who are so associated with the building that its members are often termed "Bedlamites", though the EUTC can and has staged performances in other venues since moving into Bedlam Theatre. Its building, the former New North Free Church at the foot of George IV Bridge in Edinburgh, was designed by Thomas Hamilton, an architect involved in the creation of Edinburgh's New Town. It is on the site of the old city poorhouse, and its current (rather apt) name is taken from the nearby site of the city's first mental health hospital, where the poet Robert Fergusson died. After the building was abandoned by the church in 1937 it was given to University of Edinburgh, who used it for various purposes including a Chaplaincy, a furniture store and a Nursing School until, in 1980, when the building was converted for the use of the Edinburgh University Theatre Company. The theatre has hosted Edinburgh's longest running improvised comedy troupe, ''The Improverts'', since their inception. ==The Edinburgh University Theatre Company== Founded in 1896 as the ''Edinburgh University Drama Society'', the EUTC is one of several amateur dramatics societies at the University of Edinburgh. The EUTC were given sole residency of the Bedlam Theatre building on 31 January 1980, having previously occupied the venue on an ad-hoc basis. The EUTC is responsible (through a Committee elected at the Company's AGM) for most aspects the theatre's administration and produces the vast majority of its shows. Most members of the EUTC are students or former students of the University of Edinburgh. Shows are proposed to the EUTC at a General Meeting, where they are selected by a general vote. All show proposals must have, at the very least, a director, producer (organisation, finances and publicity), technician (lighting, sound and special effects) and stage manager (who is, unlike an ordinary stage manager, responsible for set building, props and costumes). Once a show is selected, it will be fully supported by the EUTC, who also provide a block grant depending on the show's classification. The Company stages a show most weeks while classes are on. The standard schedule consists of ''Lunchtimes ''(small scale shows with one or two performances, no longer exclusively performed in the afternoon), ''Mainterms ''(larger budget shows with at least three performances, most of which take place in the early evening) and ''Festivals ''(usually week-long events, sometimes incorporating more than twenty productions selected by the elected festival team). The most important Festivals take place in Freshers Week and early January. These can be supplemented with ''Extraordinaries.'' The Bedlam Youth Project aims to introduce children to the various disciplines of theatre. In 2009 they visited Brussels to help run 'Featlets', a youth theatre subsidiary of the Festival of European Anglophone Theatre Societies (FEATS). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bedlam Theatre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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